Trolling

Quality:

Troll - Internet slang for someone who is deliberately inflammatory online. Article “Trolling” in English Wikipedia has 72.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 183 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.74 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4681^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 776^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5700^th most popular in all topics.

The 1325^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Trolling” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 17 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Trolling”, its content was written by 2109 registered users of English Wikipedia (776^th place) and edited by 5845 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1325^th place).

The article is cited 946 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3261 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #47 in May 2004
• Global: #175 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #361 in October 2012
• Global: #919 in August 2012

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Trolling		72.2164
2	Armenian (hy) Թրոլ (սլենգ)		71.1436
3	Croatian (hr) Internetski trol		52.4711
4	French (fr) Troll (Internet)		50.8655
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Nettroll		50.0938
6	Spanish (es) Trol (Internet)		49.4052
7	German (de) Troll (Netzkultur)		48.931
8	Simple English (simple) Troll (internet)		41.557
9	Esperanto (eo) Interreta trolo		40.5382
10	Catalan (ca) Trol (Internet)		35.9644

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Trolling		22 175 644
2	Spanish (es) Trol (Internet)		3 775 046
3	German (de) Troll (Netzkultur)		2 848 046
4	French (fr) Troll (Internet)		2 750 155
5	Italian (it) Troll (Internet)		1 699 802
6	Portuguese (pt) Trol (internet)		1 043 772
7	Japanese (ja) 荒らし		557 271
8	Chinese (zh) 網路白目		551 683
9	Dutch (nl) Trol (internet)		482 645
10	Czech (cs) Troll (internet)		412 391

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Trolling		18 897
2	German (de) Troll (Netzkultur)		3 095
3	French (fr) Troll (Internet)		2 651
4	Spanish (es) Trol (Internet)		1 218
5	Italian (it) Troll (Internet)		917
6	Korean (ko) 트롤 (인터넷)		907
7	Japanese (ja) 荒らし		779
8	Chinese (zh) 網路白目		704
9	Portuguese (pt) Trol (internet)		500
10	Persian (fa) ترول اینترنتی		455

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Trolling		2 109
2	German (de) Troll (Netzkultur)		549
3	French (fr) Troll (Internet)		457
4	Spanish (es) Trol (Internet)		408
5	Italian (it) Troll (Internet)		281
6	Japanese (ja) 荒らし		270
7	Dutch (nl) Trol (internet)		188
8	Hebrew (he) טרול (אינטרנט)		187
9	Portuguese (pt) Trol (internet)		136
10	Chinese (zh) 網路白目		120

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Troll (Netzkultur)		4
2	Spanish (es) Trol (Internet)		3
3	English (en) Trolling		2
4	Arabic (ar) متصيد (إنترنت)		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Интернет трол		1
6	Hebrew (he) טרול (אינטרנט)		1
7	Hindi (hi) ट्रॉल (इण्टरनेट)		1
8	Hungarian (hu) Troll (internet)		1
9	Romanian (ro) Troll		1
10	Simple English (simple) Troll (internet)		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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